Louisa – Harpist

Harpist with Pop, Jazz, Classical and Folk Music Repertoire

Louisa first fell in love with the harp at the age of three after seeing the Nutcracker ballet. Whilst most little girls dreamed of being ballerinas, a beautiful gold harp caught her eye. Louisa had her first harp lessons at the age of six years old. She soon progressed and, at eleven, won a scholarship to the prestigious Purcell School of Music. Her studies continued at Trinity College of Music.

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She was the first harpist at Trinity College to graduate with a first-class degree. While undertaking her postgraduate studies, she was invited to perform a concerto at the Royal Festival Hall with the Trinity College symphony orchestra. She was awarded the Silver Prize for String Players.

Wedding Repertoire List

Classical

• Ave Maria – Schubert
• Ave Maria – Js Bach/Gounod
• Arrival of the Queen of Sheba – Handel
• Air and Hornpipe from the Water Music Suite – Handel
• Canon in D – Pachelbel
• Jesu, joy of Man’s Desiring – Js Bach
• Air on a G string – Js Bach
• Barcarolle – Offenbach
• Gymnopedies – Eric Satie
• Arabesque – Debussy
• Clair de Lune – Debussy
• Cavatina – John Williams
• Eine Kleine Nachtmusik – Mozart
• Second movt Piano Conc 21 – Mozart
• The Swan-Saint – Saens
• Selections from the Four Seasons – Vivaldi
• Fur Elise – Beethoven
• Meditation from Thais – Massenet
• Bolero – Ravel
• Morning – Grieg
• Nimrod – Elgar
• Chanson de Matin – Elgar
• Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini – Rachmaninoff
• O Sole Mio – Di Capua
• Waltz from Sleeping Beauty – Tchaikovsky
• Scene and Waltz from Swan Lake -Tchaikovsky
• Panis Angelicus – Franck
• Trumpet Voluntary  – Jeremiah Clarke
• Jupiter from The Planets (I vow to thee) – Holst
• Moonlight Sonata – Beethoven
• Themes from the New World Symphony – Dvorak
• Concerto de Aranjuez – Rodrigo
• Spanish Romance – Jeux Interdit
• Theme from Sherezade – Rimsky Korsakoff
• Pavane – Faure
• Prelude in C – Js Bach
• Blue Danube – Strauss
• Them from Clarinet Concerto – Mozart
• Largo – Handel
• To a Wild Rose – Macdowell
• Choral Symphony(last movement) – Beethoven
• Waltz from Coppelia – Delibes
• Liebstraum – Liszt
• Waltzes – Brahms
• Pie Jesu from Requiem – Faure
• Third Movt. From Symphony no.5 (Theme from Death in Venice) – Mahler
• Zadock the Priest  – Handel

 Opera

• Arias from The Magic flute and the Marriage of Figaro – Mozart
• Pearlfishers duet – Bizet
• Nessun Dorma – Puccini
• The Flower duet from Lakme – Delibes
• One fine day( Madam Butterfly) – Puccini
• O Mio Bambino Caro – Puccini
• Habanera and Toreador’s song from Carmen – Bizet
• Una Furtiva Lagrima – Donizetti
• Intermezzo from Cavaliera Rusticana
• Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves – Verdi
• Triumphal March from Aida – Verdi
• Lascio ch’io piango – Handel

Music from the Movies

• Moon River – Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• As Time goes By  – Casablanca
• My Heart will go on  – Titanic
• I will always love you – The Bodyguard
• Unchained Melody – Ghost
• Window beneath Wings – Beaches
• Come what may – Moulin Rouge
• Balcony Scene, Kissing you – Romeo+Juliet
• The Time of my life – Dirty Dancing
• Bright Eyes – Watership Down
• Somewhere my love – Dr Zhivago
• Tara’s Theme – Gone with the Wind
• Up where we belong  – An Officer and a Gentleman
• Everybody’s talkin’  – Midnight Cowboy
• Theme from – The Godfather
• Theme from – Love Story
• Everything I do(I do it for you) – Robin Hood
• Falling in love again – Blue Angel
• It Had to be you – When Harry met Sally
• Somewhere out there – An American Tail
• The Feather Theme – Forrest Gump
• Hedwig’s theme – Harry Potter
• Feels like Home – The Notebook
• Themes from BBC1’s Pride and Prejudice

Also songs from the Disney  movies. Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Pinnochio, The little mermaid, Aladdin, the Jungle Book.

Musicals

• My Fair Lady – I could have danced all night/ Wouldn’t it be lovely/On the street where you live.
• Sound of Music – Sound of Music/ My Favourite things/ Edelweiss
• Oliver- Where is love/ As long as he needs me
• Beauty and the Beast – Tale as Old as Time
• Showboat – Can’t help falling in love/ Bill/ Ol’ Man River
• Carousel – If I loved you/ You’ll never walk alone
• The King and I – Hello young lovers/ Getting to know you
• Fiddler on the Roof – Sunrise, Sunset
• Les Miserables – Castle on a cloud/I dreamed a dream/ Bring him home
• Chess – I know him so well
• Mary Poppins – Feed the Birds/ Let’s go fly a kite
• West Side Story – Maria /Tonight / One hand one heart / Somewhere
• South Pacific – Some enchanted evening/ Younger than springtime/ Bali-hai
• Finian’s Rainbow – How are things in Gloccamora/ Look to the rainbow
• Beauty and the Beast – Tale as Old as Time
• Annie – Tomorrow
• The Wizard of Oz – Somewhere over the rainbow
• The Lion King – Can you feel the love tonight/ Circle of life
• Andrew Lloyd Webber – Songs from Phantom of the Opera/ Cats/ Evita /  Sunset Boulevard/ Aspects of love and Pie Jesu from Requiem.

Classic Love Songs

• The Way you Look Tonight
• I Only have eyes for you
• What a diff’rence a day makes
• Ole devil called Love
• I get a kick out of you
• Night and day
• Stormy Weather
• I love Paris
• Easy to love
• From this moment on
• Love is a many splendored thing
• Almost like being in love
• Smoke gets in your eyes
• Misty
• I got you under my skin
• Taking a chance on love
• That’s Amore(Dean Martin)
• Ain’t Misbehavin’
• Autumn Leaves
• Blue Moon
• These foolish thngs
• Steppin out with my baby
• They can’t take that away from me
• The shadow of your smile
• Moonlight Serenade(Glenn Millar)
• A nightingale sang in Berkely Square
• Tenderly
• I get along without you very well
• Ole Devil Moon
• Where or when
• My Ship
• So in Love
• Beyond the Sea( La Mer)
• If love were all( Noel Coward)
• Miss Otis Regrets
• Basin Street Blues

Jazz Standards

• Gershwin – Summertime/ Someone to watch over me/ Embraceable you/ Let’s call the whole thing off/ S’wonderful/ Bidin my time
• Frank Sinatra – Fly me to the moon/ New York, New York/ My way /Love and Marriage/ Young at heart/ Something stupid/ My funny Valentine/ Autumn Leaves.
• Ella Fitzgerald – Ev’ry time we say goodbye/ Bewitched/ Manhattan/ The man I love / With a song in my heart
• Nat King Cole – When I fall in love/ Stardust / Mona Lisa / Unforgettable
• Louis Armstrong – What a wonderful world/ We have all the time in the world
• Judy Garland – Somewhere over the rainbow/ Zing went the strings of my heart / The boy next door/ The man that got away
• Barbara Streisand – Evergreen/ Don’t rain on my parade/ People/ On a clear day/ I finally found someone

Pop Songs and Love Songs

• Beatles – Hey Jude/ Yesterday/Here comes the sun / All you need is love/ Lucy in the sky / In my Life /Norwegian Wood /Here, there and everywhere/ And I love her / All my loving  / I will / Something in the way/ With a little help with my friends
• Elvis Presley – Can’t help falling in love/ Love me tender / Are you lonesome tonight / The wonder of you / Hawaiian wedding song
• Simon and Garfunkel -Bridge over  Troubled Water /Sound of Silence / Feelin Groovy/ America/ Scarborough Fair
• Carpenters – Close to you/ We’ve only just begun
• Stevie Wonder – For once in my life/ You are the sunshine of my life/ I just called to say I love you/ My Cherie amour/ Lately
• Lionel Richie – Three times a lady/ Hello/ Lady /Endless Love
• John Lennon – Imagine/ Woman
• Van Morrison – Moondance / Have I told you lately that I love you/ Brown eyed girl
• Elton John – Your Song / Can you feel the love tonight/ Tiny Dancer
• Bacharach and David – The look of love  / This guy’s in love with you / Can’t take my eyes off you/ Raindrops keep falling on my head/ Do you know the way to San Jose?  / Girl from Ipanema
• Neil Diamond – Hello again/ You don’t bring me flowers/ Sweet Caroline
• Peggy Lee – Fever/ Crazy
• Carly Simon – Nobody does it better/ Coming around again
• Joni Mitchell – From both sides now/ A case of you
• Procul Harem – A whiter shade of pale
• Billy Joel –  ust the way you are/ She’s always a woman
• Roberta Flack – First time ever I saw your first / Killing me softly
• Lou Reed – Perfect Day
• Bangles – Eternal Flame
• Bee Gees – How deep is your love
• Don Mclean –And I love you so
• Mama Cass – Dream a little dream
• Beach Boys – God only knows
• Carol King – You’ve got a friend
• James Taylor – Fire and rain
• Nina Simone – My baby just cares for me / God bless the child
• Paul McCartney – Maybe I’m amazed/ My love
• Eric Clapton – Wonderful tonight
• Chris de Burgh – Lady in red
• Sting – Every breath you take
• Whitney Houston –     Saving all my love for you
• Barry Manilow –  Mandy
• Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt – Don’t know much but I know I love you
• Bobby Vinton – Blue velvet
• Dusty Springfield – You don’t have to say you love me
• The Kinks –   Waterloo sunset
• Phil Collins – A groovy kind of love
• Elvis Costello – She
• Shania Twain – You’re Still The One
• Whitney Houston – Saving All My Love
• Etta James – At Last
• Robbie Williams – Angels/ You’re the one          
• Take That  – Back for Good/ Stardust / Greatest Day
• Paul Weller – You do something to me/ English rose
• James Blunt – You’re beautiful
• Eva Cassidy – Songbird/ Fields of gold/ Somewhere over the rainbow
• Lonestar – Amazed
• Ronan Keating – When you say nothing at all
• Shania Twain – You’re the still the one
• Extreme – More than words
• Boys to Men – I swear
• Katie Melua – Closest thing to crazy
• Jack Johnson – Better together
• Aerosmith – Don’t wanna miss a thing
• Norah Jones – Come Away with Me
• Massive Attack – Teardrop
• Lamb – Gorecki
• The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony
• Vanessa Williams – Save the best till last
• Seal – from a rose
• The Turtles – Happy Together
• Michael Jackson – I just can’t stop loving you

Folk Music

• Traditional music from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales
• Greensleeves
• Danny Boy
• Skye Boat song
• Amazing Grace
• The Ash Grove
  Men of Harlech
• The Minstrel Boy
• She moved thro’ the fair
• Tom Bowling
• Loch Lomond
• David of the white rock
• Scarborough fair
• And man, many more..
• Also songs by Christy Moore, Planxty and Savourna Stevenson

Rock & Indie

• Elbow  – One Day Like This
• Guns’n’roses – Sweet child o’ mine
• Foo Fighters – Everlong
• Metallica – Nothing else matters
• Kings of Leon – Use Somebody
• Evanescence – Bring me to life
• Oasis – Wonderwall
• Biffy Clyro – Many of horror
• Songs from: Mumford & Sons, Florence & the Machine, The Goo Goo Dolls, U2, The Guillemots, Sigur Ros, Adele

Louis also loves to take requests, so if your favourite song isn’t on this list, then don’t hesitate to ask for it.  She will do my best to find the music and play it for you.